Art Exhibition: Kabuki – Japanese Theatre Prints

Come face to face with Kabuki theatre’s most famous characters!

Venue: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Date: 4^th October 2013 – 2^nd February 2014

The opening up of Japan to the rest of the world after Commodore Perry’s 1853 visit sparked a craze in the West for Japanese art and design. Called Japonisme it began in the late 1850s and peaked with and after what is considered by some the most pivotal event in the history of Japanese art in the West; the exhibition of Sir Rutherford Alcock’s collection of

Gallery Talk: “Japanese Landscape Prints: Then & Now” Ukiyo-e Pop

Part of the Ukiyo-e & Contemporary Japonism exhibition!

Location: ICN gallery 96-98 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RH London

Date: Thursday 16 August from 7-8pm

Dr. Monika Hinkel’s last talk for the

Tokyo Kabukiza Monthly Kabuki Review 15th February – 1st March 1930

First in a two-part series by Kabuki collector and researcher, Trevor Skingle!

Some time after acquiring the Sintomiza tsuji banzuke, I discovered two Kabuki magazines for sale by a Swiss dealer and purchased them. What followed was a long period of research and translation that revealed a wealth of information about a four month period of Kabuki performances at the Kabukiza in Tōkyō between February and May 1930. This issue, entitled the Cherry month edition, of the Tokyo Kabukiza Monthly Kabuki Review, which began publication in 1914 by Tanaka Sada, was number 62 covering the period 15th February – 1st March 1930 and was edited by Torii Kotondo (1900-1976) who was the title page editor whose real name was